Our aim is to gain control of the two great treasure houses on which the West depends: The energy treasure house of the Persian Gulf and the minerals treasure house of Central and Southern Africa.

The trouble with free elections is, you never know who is going to win.

The highest peace is the peace between opposites.

Detente is a readiness to resolve differences and conflicts not by force, not by threats and sabre-rattling, but by peaceful means, at the conference table.

It is madness for any country to build its policy with an eye to nuclear war.

When the Soviet Union came to be run by a valetudinarian mafioso like Brezhnev, the thing itself had fallen into self-contempt.

There is nothing more practical than a good theory.

Whatever else may divide us, Europe is our common home; a common fate has linked us through the centuries, and it continues to link us today.

We Communists have to string along with the capitalists for a while. We need their agriculture and their technology.

Soviet people are better off materially and richer spiritually.

The most important thing in my life, its leitmotif, has been the constant and close contacts with working people, with workers and peasants.

The esoteric finds the Absolute within the traditions, as poets find poetry within the poems.

Every successful venture is based on an unoriginal idea, beautifully executed.

Many psychoanalysts refused to let me speak at their meetings. They were exceptionally vigorous because I had previously been an analyst and they were very angry at my flying the coop.

Life is measured in achievement not in years alone

May I examine my mind in all actions and as soon as a negative state occurs, since it endangers myself and others, may I firmly face and avert it.

There are things about us that make us who we are, personality traits, or capacities that we have, or knowledge we possess or that we don't possess, habits we have that are good or bad.

You may only call me "Mrs. Darcy"... when you are completely, and perfectly, and incandescently happy.

The interests of the state must come first.

To me, it's an honour to be accepted as a hip hop artist, it gives me a lot of opportunity to express myself.

Bush is actually encouraging the spread of nuclear weapons because the one thing I do know is if Iran did have nuclear weapons they wouldn't be threatening them.